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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Preface to Eight Edition
• Contents
• Chapter I Kinetic Theoey of Gases
• 1. Atomic Theory in Chemistry
• 2. Fundamental Assumptions of the Kinetic Theory of Gases
• 3. Calculation of the Pressure of a Gas
• 4. Temperature of a Gas
• 5. Specific Heat
• 6. Law of Distribution of Energy and Velocity
• 7. Free Path
• 8. Determination of Avogadro’s Number
• Chapter II Elementary Particles
• 1. Conduction of Electricity in Rarefied Gases
• 2. Canal Rays and Anode Rays (Positive Rays)
• 3. X-rays
• 4. Radiations from Radioactive Substances
• 5. Prout’s Hypothesis, Isotopy, the Proton
• 6. The Neutron
• 7. Cosmic Rays. Positrons
• 8. Mesons and Nuclear Forces
• Chapter III The Nuclear Atom
• 1. Lorentz’s Electron Theory
• 2. The Theorem of the Inertia of Energy
• 3. Investigation of Atomic Structure by Scattering Experiments
• 4. Mass Defect and Nuclear Binding Energy. The Neutrino
• 5. Heavy Hydrogen and Heavy Water
• 6. Nuclear Reactions and Radioactive Decay
• Chapter IV Wave-Corpuscles
• 1. Wave Theory of Light. Interference and Diffraction
• 2. Light Quanta
• 3. Quantum Theory of the Atom
• 4. Compton Effect
• 5. Wave Nature of Matter. De Broglie’s Theory
• 6. Experimental Demonstration of Matter Waves
• 7. The Contradiction between the Wave Theory and the Corpuscular Theory, and its Removal
• Chapter V Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines
• 1. The Bohr Atom; Stationary Orbits for Simply Periodic Motions
• 2. Quantum Conditions for Simply and Multiply Periodic Motions
• 3. Matrix Mechanics
• 4. Wave Mechanics
• 5. Angular Momentum in Wave Mechanics
• 6. Parity
• 7. The Statistical Interpretation of Wave Mechanics
• 8. Emission and Absorption of Radiation
• Chapter VI Spin of The Electron and Pauli’s Principle
• 1. Alkali Doublets and the Spinning Electron
• 2. The Anomalous Zeeman Effect
• 3. The Hydrogen Atom and X-ray Terms
• 4. The Helium Atom
• 5. Pauli’s Exclusion Principle
• 6. The Periodic System. Closed Shells
• 7. Magnetism
• 8. Wave Theory of the Spin Electron
• 9. Density of the Electronic Cloud
• Chapter VII Quantum Statistics
• 1. Heat Radiation and Planck’s Law
• 2. Specific Heat of Solids and of Polyatomic Gases
• 3. Quantisation of Black Body Radiation
• 4. Bose-Einstein Statistics of Light Quanta
• 5. Einstein’s Theory of Gas Degeneration
• 6. Fermi-Dirac Statistics
• 7. Electron Theory of Metals. Energy Distribution
• 8. Thermionic and Photoelectric Effect in Metals
• 9. Magnetism of the Electron Gas
• 10. Electrical and Thermal Conductivity. Thermoelectricity
• Chapter VIII Molecular Structure
• 1. Molecular Properties as an Expression of the Distribution of Charge in the Electronic Cloud
• 2. Experimental Determination of the Molecular Constants
• 3. Band Spectra and the Raman Effect
• 4. Chemical Binding. Classification of Types of Binding
• 5. Theory of Heteropolar Ionic Binding
• 6. Theory of Co-valency Binding
• 7. Theory of van der Waals Forces and other Types of Binding
• Chapter IX Quantum Theory of Solids
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Modes of Lattice Vibration
• 3. Quantisation of the Lattice Vibrations
• 4. Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons
• 5. The Mössbauer Effect
• 6. Electrons in a Periodic Lattice Band
• 7. Metals and Insulators
• 8. Metals
• 9. Superconductivity
• 10. Ferromagnetism
• 11. Insulators and Semiconductors
• Chapter X Nuclear Physics
• 1. The Size of the Nucleus and α-Decay
• 2. Angular Momentum and Magnetic Moment
• 3. The Deuteron and Nuclear Forces
• 4. Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Saturation
• 5. The Nuclear Shell Model
• 6. The Nuclear Collective Model
• 7. β-Decay and K-Capture
• 8. Nuclear Electromagnetic Interactions
• 9. The Drop Model, Nuclear Reactions and Fission
• Conclusion by M. Born
• Appendices
• I. Evaluation of Some integrals Connected with the Kinetic Theory of Gases
• II. Heat Conduction, Viscosity, and Diffusion
• III. Van der Waals’ Equation of State
• IV. The Mean Square Deviation
• V. Theory of Relativity
• VI. Electron Theory
• VII. The Theorem of the Inertia of Energy
• VIII. Calculation of the Coefficient of Scattering for Radiation by a Free Particle
• IX. Rutherford’s Scattering Formula for α-rays
• X. The Compton Effect
• XI. Phase Velocity and Group Velocity
• XII. Elementary Derivation of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Relation
• XIII. Hamiltonian Theory and Action Variables
• XIV. Quantisation of the Elliptic Orbits in Bohr’s Theory
• XV. The Oscillator according to Matrix Mechanics
• XVI. The Oscillator according to Wave Mechanics
• XVII. The Vibrations of a Circular Membrane
• XVIII. Solution of Schrödinger’s Equation for the Kepler (Central Force) Problem
• XIX. The Orbital Angular Momentum
• XX. Deduction of Rutherford’s Scattering Formula by Wave Mechanics
• XXI. Deduction of the Selection Rules for Electric Dipole Radiation
• XXII. Anomalous Zeeman Effect of the D Lines of Sodium
• XXIII. Enumeration of the Terms in the Case of Two p-Electrons
• XXIV. Atomic Form Factor
• XXV. The Formalism of Quantum Mechanics
• XXVI. General Proof of the Uncertainty Relation
• XXVII. Transition Probabilities
• XXVIII. Quantum Theory of Emission of Radiation
• XXIX. The Electrostatic Energy of Nuclei
• XXX. Theory of α-Disintegration
• XXXI. The Ground State of the Deuteron
• XXXII. Meson Theory
• XXXIII. The Stefan-Boltzmann Law and Wien’s Displacement Law
• XXXIV. Absorption by an Oscillator
• XXXV. Temperature and Entropy in Quantum Statistics
• XXXVI. Thermionic Emission of Electrons
• XXXVII. Temperature Variation of Paramagnetism
• XXXVIII. Theory of Co-valency Binding
• XXXIX. Time-independent Perturbation Theory for Non-degenerate States
• XL. Theory of the van der Waals Forces
• XLI. The Modes of Vibration of a Linear Monatomic Chain
• Bibliography
• Index